LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Gunther Gebel-Williams, the world-renowned circus animal trainer, died of cancer Thursday at his home in Venice, Florida. He was 66 years old and had been ...

Gebel, the son of legendary Ringling Bros. animal trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams, beamed after the verdict. “I’m very relieved,” he said, adding that the possibility of a jail sentence ...

A few weeks from now, the man many credit with saving the American circus will be slipping out of the spotlight. This time, perhaps, for good. Like guys named MJ and Ryno, animal trainer Gunther ...

Gunther Gebel-Williams, a renowned animal trainer circus star whose uncanny rapport with animals pleased children of all ages for three decades, died on Thursday at home in Venice, southwest ...

Mark Oliver Gebel of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, son of the late legendary animal trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams, ... accused of using brutal training methods on performing animals.

Past a small woman delicately balancing eight spinning plates on the ends of long metal rods stands Mark Oliver Gebel, holding steadfast to the only rope keeping two acrobats suspended 20 feet from… ...

Past a small woman delicately balancing eight spinning plates on the ends of long metal rods stands Mark Oliver Gebel, ... The only son of animal trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams, Mr. Gebel has had ...

A star circus performer will rivet outraged animal lovers today when he goes on trial in San Jose for allegedly gouging an elephant with a hooked stick. While critics have long protested that ...

Re "Circus Practices Go on Trial," Dec. 18: I am an 84-year-old lady who married into the circus in 1945 and, because in those days you had to do something, I became the first woman circus press ...

VENICE, Fla. -- Gunther Gebel-Williams, 66, a circus animal trainer who delighted ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages during his three decades with the Greatest Show on Earth, died of ...